SCIENCE CAREERS: Carving a Career in Translational Research

Siri Carpenter
Science 17 August 2007: 966-967.
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SCIENCE CAREERS: Translational Institute Unites Unlikely Partners at Penn

Ken Garber
Science 17 August 2007: 968-969.
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SCIENCE CAREERS: European Programs Offer Translational Training

Elisabeth Pain
Science 17 August 2007: 968-969.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Pork and Punishment

Donald Kennedy
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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Science Podcast

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NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

GRANTS MANAGEMENT: NSF Survey of Applicants Finds a System Teetering on the Brink

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 17 August 2007: 880-881.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Firing of AIDS Policy Champion Seen as Setback

Robert Koenig
Science 17 August 2007: 881.
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NEUROSCIENCE: Enzyme Keeps Old Memories Alive

Greg Miller
Science 17 August 2007: 883.
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ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS: Controversy Continues After Panel Rules on Bisphenol A

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 17 August 2007: 884-885.
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MOLECULAR EVOLUTION: Resurrected Proteins Reveal Their Surprising History

Robert F. Service
Science 17 August 2007: 884-885.
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MARINE GEOLOGY: Support Is Drying Up for Noah's Flood Filling the Black Sea

Richard A. Kerr
Science 17 August 2007: 886.
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ALAN KRENSKY INTERVIEW: Drawing a Map for the Twenty-Seven Divisions in NIH's Army

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 17 August 2007: 887.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Newsmakers

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News Focus

ORNITHOLOGY: Gambling on a Ghost Bird

Erik Stokstad
Science 17 August 2007: 888-892.
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BIODIVERSITY: Predicting Oblivion: Are Existing Models Up to the Task?

Carl Zimmer
Science 17 August 2007: 892-893.
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EVOLUTION: Jumping Genes Hop Into the Evolutionary Limelight

Elizabeth Pennisi
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Biofuels and the Environment

Michael W. Palmer;, David Pimentel, Rattan Lal;, and Donald Kennedy
Science 17 August 2007: 897-898.
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 The Tobacco Industry and the Data Quality Act

Suzaynn Francine Schick, Lisa Anne Bero, and Daniel M. Cook
Science 17 August 2007: 898.
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 Explorer XII: Spinning Faster Than Expected

David H. Schaefer;, Stephen J. Paddack, and David P. Rubincam
Science 17 August 2007: 898-899.
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 LIFE IN SCIENCE: Stop--Look--Jump

Phil Szuromi
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 An Update on a Misconduct Investigation

Philip M. Iannaccone
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: To Arbitrate or to Advocate?

Nathan E. Hultman
Science 17 August 2007: 900-901.
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NEUROSCIENCE: Wittgenstein and the Brain

Barry Dainton
Science 17 August 2007: 901.
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Books Received

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Policy Forum

ENVIRONMENT: Carbon Mitigation by Biofuels or by Saving and Restoring Forests?

Renton Righelato and Dominick V. Spracklen
Science 17 August 2007: 902.
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Perspectives

BIOCHEMISTRY: Getting Into and Through the Outer Membrane

Jan Tommassen
Science 17 August 2007: 903-904.
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CELL BIOLOGY: Aneuploidy in the Balance

Prasad V. Jallepalli and David Pellman
Science 17 August 2007: 904-905.
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GEOPHYSICS: The Need to Study Speed

Shamita Das
Science 17 August 2007: 905-906.
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NEUROSCIENCE: Synapses Here and Not Everywhere

David M. Miller
Science 17 August 2007: 907-908.
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OCEANS: A Change in Circulation?

John A. Church
Science 17 August 2007: 908-909.
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Review

Plant Speciation

Loren H. Rieseberg and John H. Willis
Science 17 August 2007: 910-914.
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Brevia

Human Genome Ultraconserved Elements Are Ultraselected

Sol Katzman, Andrew D. Kern, Gill Bejerano, Ginger Fewell, Lucinda Fulton, Richard K. Wilson, Sofie R. Salama, and David Haussler
Science 17 August 2007: 915.
Ultraconserved DNA sequences, unchanged in vertebrates for 300 million years, are maintained by selection four times as strong as that for coding genes. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Article

Effects of Aneuploidy on Cellular Physiology and Cell Division in Haploid Yeast

Eduardo M. Torres, Tanya Sokolsky, Cheryl M. Tucker, Leon Y. Chan, Monica Boselli, Maitreya J. Dunham, and Angelika Amon
Science 17 August 2007: 916-924.
Yeast cells containing any extra chromosome all exhibit a similar phenotype despite the presence of supernumerary genes. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Detection of Circumstellar Material in a Normal Type Ia Supernova

F. Patat, P. Chandra, R. Chevalier, S. Justham, Ph. Podsiadlowski, C. Wolf, A. Gal-Yam, L. Pasquini, I. A. Crawford, P. A. Mazzali, A. W. A. Pauldrach, K. Nomoto, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, N. Elias-Rosa, W. Hillebrandt, D. C. Leonard, A. Pastorello, A. Renzini, F. Sabbadin, J. D. Simon, and M. Turatto
Science 17 August 2007: 924-926.
Published online 12 July 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1143005] (in Science Express Reports)
Detection of gas around a type Ia supernova, a standard distance reference, implies that the progenitor white dwarf exploded after cannibalizing a red giant companion star. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Radiationless Electromagnetic Interference: Evanescent-Field Lenses and Perfect Focusing

R. Merlin
Science 17 August 2007: 927-929.
Published online 12 July 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1143884] (in Science Express Reports)
A new method is proposed for subwavelength imaging in which interference produced from planar subwavelength structures in a plate focuses light on the plate's surface. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Coherent Optical Spectroscopy of a Strongly Driven Quantum Dot

Xiaodong Xu, Bo Sun, Paul R. Berman, Duncan G. Steel, Allan S. Bracker, Dan Gammon, and L. J. Sham
Science 17 August 2007: 929-932.
The absorption spectrum of a quantum dot containing multiple atoms has the splitting characteristics and signature of a simple two-level system, as in a single atom. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Deep Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Hexagonal Boron Nitride Synthesized at Atmospheric Pressure

Yoichi Kubota, Kenji Watanabe, Osamu Tsuda, and Takashi Taniguchi
Science 17 August 2007: 932-934.
A nickel-molybdenum solvent yields high-purity hexagonal boron nitride crystals that emit intense ultraviolet light that may be useful for medical treatments and in electronics. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Temporal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

Stuart A. Cunningham, Torsten Kanzow, Darren Rayner, Molly O. Baringer, William E. Johns, Jochem Marotzke, Hannah R. Longworth, Elizabeth M. Grant, Joël J.-M. Hirschi, Lisa M. Beal, Christopher S. Meinen, and Harry L. Bryden
Science 17 August 2007: 935-938.
The different components forming deep water in the North Atlantic, which leads to thermohaline circulation in the oceans, can vary in intensity by a factor of eight annually. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Observed Flow Compensation Associated with the MOC at 26.5°N in the Atlantic

Torsten Kanzow, Stuart A. Cunningham, Darren Rayner, Joël J.-M. Hirschi, William E. Johns, Molly O. Baringer, Harry L. Bryden, Lisa M. Beal, Christopher S. Meinen, and Jochem Marotzke
Science 17 August 2007: 938-941.
Intra-annual fluctuations in the different sources forming deep water in the North Atlantic largely compensate one another, allowing robust estimates of the flow. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reduced Egg Investment Can Conceal Helper Effects in Cooperatively Breeding Birds

A. F. Russell, N. E. Langmore, A. Cockburn, L. B. Astheimer, and R. M. Kilner
Science 17 August 2007: 941-944.
Female fairy-wrens lay smaller eggs when "nanny" males are available to help feed the young, reducing the mothers' reproductive investment and increasing their survival. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Whole-Genome Association Study of Major Determinants for Host Control of HIV-1

Jacques Fellay, Kevin V. Shianna, Dongliang Ge, Sara Colombo, Bruno Ledergerber, Mike Weale, Kunlin Zhang, Curtis Gumbs, Antonella Castagna, Andrea Cossarizza, Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Andrea De Luca, Philippa Easterbrook, Patrick Francioli, Simon Mallal, Javier Martinez-Picado, José M. Miro, Niels Obel, Jason P. Smith, Josiane Wyniger, Patrick Descombes, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, Norman L. Letvin, Andrew J. McMichael, Barton F. Haynes, Amalio Telenti, and David B. Goldstein
Science 17 August 2007: 944-947.
Published online 19 July 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1143767] (in Science Express Reports)
A survey of the whole human genome identifies variants in immune genes that are associated with differences in viral load during the early stages of HIV infection. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Spatial Regulation of an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Directs Selective Synapse Elimination

Mei Ding, Dan Chao, George Wang, and Kang Shen
Science 17 August 2007: 947-951.
Published online 12 July 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1145727] (in Science Express Reports)
In developing worms, the pruning of excess synapses requires proteosome-mediated protein degradation and is selectively prevented by a neural adhesion molecule. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Rapid Erasure of Long-Term Memory Associations in the Cortex by an Inhibitor of PKM

Reut Shema, Todd Charlton Sacktor, and Yadin Dudai
Science 17 August 2007: 951-953.
Even long after consolidation of a stable memory in rats, the activity of a particular protein kinase isoform is required in the cortex for its persistence. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Detection of Near-Atmospheric Concentrations of CO₂ by an Olfactory Subsystem in the Mouse

Ji Hu, Chun Zhong, Cheng Ding, Qiuyi Chi, Andreas Walz, Peter Mombaerts, Hiroaki Matsunami, and Minmin Luo
Science 17 August 2007: 953-957.
Mice can sense near-atmospheric concentrations of CO₂ using a subset of olfactory neurons that may utilize the catabolic enzyme carbonic anhydrase. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Structure of the Membrane Protein FhaC: A Member of the Omp85-TpsB Transporter Superfamily

Bernard Clantin, Anne-Sophie Delattre, Prakash Rucktooa, Nathalie Saint, Albano C. Méli, Camille Locht, Françoise Jacob-Dubuisson, and Vincent Villeret
Science 17 August 2007: 957-961.
Two structures of bacterial outer membrane proteins reveal how the polypeptide transport-associated domain can bind and transport diverse cellular proteins. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Structure and Function of an Essential Component of the Outer Membrane Protein Assembly Machine

Seokhee Kim, Juliana C. Malinverni, Piotr Sliz, Thomas J. Silhavy, Stephen C. Harrison, and Daniel Kahne
Science 17 August 2007: 961-964.
Two structures of bacterial outer membrane proteins reveal how the polypeptide transport-associated domain can bind and transport diverse cellular proteins. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|